Katipunan

Of greater import was the fervent desire of Filipinos to be freed from the shackles and corruption of the conjugal Marcos dictatorship.

Yellow politics promised the Filipino people, which Cory Aquino and her political clan want the nation to conveniently forget about, in the words of Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan one hundred years earlier, "Kaganiban and Kasaganan for the nation once the avarice of the Marcoses was ended." Freedom, democracy, and good governance only made sense to Filipinos as necessary tools to bring about kaganiban and kasaganan for the nation.

Without kaganiban and kasaganan, the ideals of freedom, democracy, and good governance are hollow and meaningless, drowning in the ocean of vagueness and ambiguity, incorrigibly shielding the bewildered incompetence and perversion of the usurpers of the spirit of EDSA nineteen eighty-six.

This is why yellow politics is on the verge of disintegration.

Here he remained quietly in exile for some years.

The Katipunan Meanwhile, the ideas which had been agitated by the wealthy and educated Filipinos had worked their way down to the poor and humble classes.

They were now shared by the peasant and the fisherman.

Especially in those provinces where the religious orders owned estates and took as rental a portion of the tenant's crop.

The Liga Filipina had been composed of cultivated and moderate men who, while pressing for reform, were not inclined to radical extremes, nor to obtain their ends by violent means.

But there now grew up and gradually spread, until it had branches and members in all the provinces surrounding Manila, a secret association composed largely of the uneducated classes whose object was independence of Spain, and whose members, having little to lose, were willing to risk all.

This was the society which had since become famous under the name of Katipunan.

This secret association was organized in Manila about 1892.

Here he remained quietly in exile for some years.

The Katipunan Meanwhile the ideas which had been agitated by the wealthy and educated Filipinos had worked their way down to the poor and humble classes.

They were now shared by the peasant and the fisherman, especially in those provinces where the religious orders owned estates and took as rental a portion of the tenant's crop.

There was growing hatred and hostility to the friars.

The Liga Filipina had been composed of cultivated and moderate men, who while pressing for reform were not inclined to radical extremes, nor to obtain their ends by violent means.

But there now grew up and gradually spread, until it had branches and members in all the provinces surrounding Manila, a secret association composed largely of the uneducated classes, whose object was independence of Spain, and whose members, having little to lose, were willing to risk all.

This was the society which had since become famous under the name of Katipunan.

This secret association was organized in Manila about 1892.

As time passed, they had it borne in upon them that revolution might pay.

The insurrection of 1896-97 was planned and carried out under the auspices of a society local to the Philippines called the Katipunan, the full title of which may be translated as Supreme Select Association of the Sons of the People.

According to Spanish writers on the subject, it was the outgrowth of a series of associations of Freemasons formed with the expressed purpose of securing reforms in the government of the Philippines, but whose unexpressed and ultimate object was to obtain the independence of the archipelago.

As if to accomplish this purpose, a systematic attack was made on the monastic orders in the Philippines to undermine their prestige and to destroy their influence upon the great mass of the population.

The honorary president of the Katipunan was Jose Rizal, whose name was used, without his permission, to attract the masses to the movement.

Rizal was born in 1861, not far from Manila.

He came of intelligent stock.

The trick was successful, and he returned to Manila, where he was soon arrested and banished to the island of Mindanao.

Here he remained quietly in exile for some years.

The Katipunan Meanwhile, the ideas which had been agitated by the wealthy and educated Filipinos had worked their way down to the poor and humble classes.

They were now shared by the peasant and the fisherman, especially in those provinces where the religious orders owned estates and took as rental a portion of the tenant's crop.

There was growing hatred and hostility to the friars.